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Post by benmnwi on Apr 21, 2018 22:31:20 GMT -6
What size is the pan you use to get 10 gallons per hour? My cheap 3 pot system works ok, but my 2 gallon per hour average stinks when I have 80+ gallons to boil. great year though as far as sap goes, but I'm ready to be done and start fishing.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 21, 2018 22:40:28 GMT -6
What size is the pan you use to get 10 gallons per hour? My cheap 3 pot system works ok, but my 2 gallon per hour average stinks when I have 80+ gallons to boil. great year though as far as sap goes, but I'm ready to be done and start fishing. How many gallons do you do a year?
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Post by badbrad on Apr 21, 2018 22:42:27 GMT -6
What size is the pan you use to get 10 gallons per hour? My cheap 3 pot system works ok, but my 2 gallon per hour average stinks when I have 80+ gallons to boil. great year though as far as sap goes, but I'm ready to be done and start fishing. See post 149
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Post by Tooln on Apr 21, 2018 22:49:25 GMT -6
What size is the pan you use to get 10 gallons per hour? My cheap 3 pot system works ok, but my 2 gallon per hour average stinks when I have 80+ gallons to boil. great year though as far as sap goes, but I'm ready to be done and start fishing. See post 149 Where the hell do you guys see post numbers?
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Post by badbrad on Apr 22, 2018 9:00:11 GMT -6
Where the hell do you guys see post numbers? In tapatalk it shows it there.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 22, 2018 10:32:52 GMT -6
Where the hell do you guys see post numbers? In tapatalk it shows it there. Got it. I was looking for it on my laptop. Funny it's on tapatalk and not the pc version. How late were you guys cooking last night?
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Post by benmnwi on Apr 22, 2018 11:53:57 GMT -6
What size is the pan you use to get 10 gallons per hour? My cheap 3 pot system works ok, but my 2 gallon per hour average stinks when I have 80+ gallons to boil. great year though as far as sap goes, but I'm ready to be done and start fishing. How many gallons do you do a year? I usually boil around 100 gallons total per year over the course of two weekends. This year I'll be boiling about 140 gallons though because this second run kicked out more sap than normal. . I usually end up with around 3 gallons of finished syrup. I'm looking at better setups to speed up the boiling process, but it hard to justify spending too much for 3 gallons of syrup per year.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 22, 2018 12:35:40 GMT -6
How many gallons do you do a year? I usually boil around 100 gallons total per year over the course of two weekends. This year I'll be boiling about 140 gallons though because this second run kicked out more sap than normal. . I usually end up with around 3 gallons of finished syrup. I'm looking at better setups to speed up the boiling process, but it hard to justify spending too much for 3 gallons of syrup per year. For the amount of sap I get I just don't have the time to cook my own. Maybe when I retire.
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Post by badbrad on Apr 23, 2018 2:12:05 GMT -6
I usually boil around 100 gallons total per year over the course of two weekends. This year I'll be boiling about 140 gallons though because this second run kicked out more sap than normal. . I usually end up with around 3 gallons of finished syrup. I'm looking at better setups to speed up the boiling process, but it hard to justify spending too much for 3 gallons of syrup per year. For the amount of sap I get I just don't have the time to cook my own. Maybe when I retire. Took a couple mason jars home last night. That will be enough for me for the year. They ended up with 25 gallons of syrup.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 23, 2018 16:41:26 GMT -6
Went out today and did the final collection and pulled my taps. Got 61 gallons for a ytd total of 1876.5. When I got home I counted the taps as when we installed we miscounted. I thought I had close to 190 out ended up there were 155. Now comes the real PITA job of washing all the pails.
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 23, 2018 18:12:02 GMT -6
Went out today and did the final collection and pulled my taps. Got 61 gallons for a ytd total of 1876.5. When I got home I counted the taps as when we installed we miscounted. I thought I had close to 190 out ended up there were 155. Now comes the real PITA job of washing all the pails. Great season Tooln. 12+ gallons per tap. They say that a good season is 10 gallons.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 23, 2018 18:44:41 GMT -6
Went out today and did the final collection and pulled my taps. Got 61 gallons for a ytd total of 1876.5. When I got home I counted the taps as when we installed we miscounted. I thought I had close to 190 out ended up there were 155. Now comes the real PITA job of washing all the pails. Great season Tooln. 12+ gallons per tap. They say that a good season is 10 gallons. It was a very good season but weird. There were times when we got a cold snap and nothing ran for a week or better. Then we get sapping weather for 7- 10 day and another cold snap. Last year I had 144 taps and got 938 gallons. The year before 110 taps and 797 gallons. Season wise the first 2 years the taps were out for 4+ weeks, this year 8, but it shut down 3 different times because of the weather. The wife and I are glad its done.
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Post by Tooln on Mar 17, 2019 0:26:09 GMT -6
Well tapping isn't going to happen this year. We were at the 40 yesterday and there is over a foot and a half of snow on the ground yet. If there a big thaw maybe but I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by nhmountains on Mar 17, 2019 4:27:35 GMT -6
Well tapping isn't going to happen this year. We were at the 40 yesterday and there is over a foot and a half of snow on the ground yet. If there a big thaw maybe but I'm not holding my breath. The sap just started running here on Thursday. We had 12-15” of snow in places that melted a lot Thursday and Friday. Are your taps along the roads or deeper in the woods? I’d try to put out as many as you can because there’ll be runs and you’re snow will go quick once it starts melting. Plus we we like to read your daily reports.
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Post by Tooln on Mar 17, 2019 4:54:57 GMT -6
Well tapping isn't going to happen this year. We were at the 40 yesterday and there is over a foot and a half of snow on the ground yet. If there a big thaw maybe but I'm not holding my breath. The sap just started running here on Thursday. We had 12-15” of snow in places that melted a lot Thursday and Friday. Are your taps along the roads or deeper in the woods? I’d try to put out as many as you can because there’ll be runs and you’re snow will go quick once it starts melting. Plus we we like to read your daily reports. Wednesday I had over 2.5' of snow on the trail. Had a lot of rain and warm weather since then. Only lost a foot of depth. If it gets to the point that I can go down the trail I'll put some out. But carring 5 gallon buckets through foot of snow isn't going to happen. Maybe I'll just tap the ones close to the trail if the trail opens up.
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